STUDIES IN INVASIVENESS

STUDIES IN INVASIVENESS
Materials: Paper Mulberry tree branches, an invasive species growing along the Anacostia River (color of the stick is the natural result of being boiled and stripped of bark to make paper), old dictionary pages, desk, wood, paint, plastilina.

installation view Studies In Invasiveness, 2017 at Honfleur Gallery

In this installation, viewers are invited to sit at the desk and reflect on the theme of invasiveness.

Group Exhibition:
Water is Life
Co-Curated by JayCee Beyale
DAIRY ARTS CENTER
Boulder, Colorado
thedairy.org
September 23rd – November 19th, 2023
Opening Reception
September 23rd 5:00pm - 8:00pm
Opening Night Panel Discussion
September 23rd 4:00pm-5:30pm
Carsen Theater, Dairy Arts Center
Participating Artists:
Nicole Salimbene, Anna Tsouhlarakis, Zeke Peña, Theresa Clowes, Kendall Rose Kippley, JayCee Beyale

Group Exhibition:
LOOKS GOOD ON PAPER
PYRAMID ATLANTIC ART CENTER
National Juried Exhibition of Works on and of Paper
August 19–October 2, 2022
RSVP FOR THE OPENING RECEPTION
JURORS:CINDY CHENG, KELLY TAYLOR MITCHELL, GRETCHEN SCHERMERHORN
Cathy Abbott (VA), Hannah O’Hare Bennett (WI), Nathaniel J. Bice (CA), Anne Burton (NE), Susan Casey (PA), Arden Cone (SC), IBe’ Bulinda Crawley (DC), Stephanie Damoff (NY), Priya Dave (MA), Mary Early (DC), Elaine Elledge (PA), Amze Emmons (PA), Andrea Sherrill Evans (MD), Lanie Gannon (TN), Reni Gower (VA), Melissa Harshman (GA), David Joo (VA), Nilou Kazemzadeh (MD), June Linowitz (MD), Christine Medley (PA), Emmett Merrill (MO), Samantha Modder (MO), Hannah Moog (VA), Phuong Nguyen (VA), Kimberly Obee (NH), Anela Oh (TN), Katie O’Keefe (MD), Mariceliz Pagán-Gómez (IA), Ransome (NY), Nicole Salimbene (MD), Katie Schutte (WI), Megan Singleton (MO), Briana Stanley (CA), Barbara Straussberg (PA), Kristen Tordella-Williams (MS), Jocmarys Viruet (PR), Isabella Whitfield (VA), Frances Vye Wilson (DC), Amy Yoshitsu (CA), and Xuewu Zheng (NY).

Group Exhibition:
Buoyant Oracle: A Sculpture That Talks Back
Reston Town Square Park, Reston, VA
August 2022 (January 2020-November 2024)
Buoyant Force is a 50-foot steel sculpture by Sue Wrbican inspired by the paintings of American Surrealist Kay Sage (b. 1898, Albany, New York; d. 1963, Woodbury, Connecticut). This playful installation provides a way to chat and exchange photographs with the sculpture. Launched in the fall of 2020, The interactive was created by the Playful City Lab in collaboration with Sue Wrbican and Tephra Institute of Contemporary Art for Reston, VA.
Over the four-year run, the installation features an evolving cast of guest oracles.
22 artist's predictions: Rahne Alexander, Nina Q. Allen, Laure Drogoul, Cheryl Edwards, Heloisa Escudero, Maggie Gourlay, Mira Hecht, Kay Hwang, Veronica Jackson, Jessica Kallista, Maria Karametou, Isabel Manalo, Ceci Cole McInturff, Meeting Ground (Susan Main and MJ Neuberg), Zia Palmer, Judith Pratt, Lisa Rosenstein, Nicole Salimbene, Asha Santee, Kat Thompson, Jessica Valoris, Naoko Wowsugi

STUDIES IN INVASIVENESSMaterials: Paper Mulberry tree branches, an invasive species growing along the Anacostia River (color of the stick is the natural result of being boiled and stripped of bark to make paper), old dictionary pages, desk, wood, paint, plastilina.

© 2022 Nicole Salimbene

STUDIES IN INVASIVENESS
Materials: Paper Mulberry tree branches, an invasive species growing along the Anacostia River (color of the stick is the natural result of being boiled and stripped of bark to make paper), old dictionary pages, desk, wood, paint, plastilina.